Falling out of love ....

Subject: Falling out of love ....
From: GUEST,Tunesmith
Date: 03 Jul 03 - 07:17 AM

Am I alone? I'm amazed how I can be obsessed with a particular artist for a while, and then quite suddenly go completely off them. Dylan and Springsteen are examples of singers that, for a while, I used to " live and breathe" but now I wouldn't cross the road to see them. Well, maybe that's an exaggeration but... you get the idea. Am I alone?

Subject: RE: Falling out of love ....
From: A Wandering Minstrel
Date: 03 Jul 03 - 07:49 AM

Nope sounds about par for the course. Also folks whose stuff you like often seem, via the incestuous linkages of the performance scene, to end up in bands with folks you don't like so you don't go and see them anymore.

Conversely there's some great old vinyl that I drag out and chill to from time to time.

Subject: RE: Falling out of love ....
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 03 Jul 03 - 07:58 AM

As long as I can remember, I've had not-quite-obsessions for songs. I'd go to whatever lengths necessary to learn the words of a song (even buying sheet music when I was older!). Then as soon as I could sing it all the way through, I'd lose interest. After a while the rteaction would wea off a bit, so most of those songs are ack on the "like to sing" list, though none on the "most wanted" list.

Steve

Subject: RE: Falling out of love ....
From: Willie-O
Date: 03 Jul 03 - 08:49 AM

Usually it seems to be the people around me, like my family, who go off the song I'm obsessed with for any given month.

Wonder why that is?

Subject: RE: Falling out of love ....
From: Sam L
Date: 03 Jul 03 - 09:32 AM

I find that a lot of pop tunes lose their charm for me by the time I've learned them. Some of that is surely that the production sounds interesting, but the songs don't often stand up to a more naked folkish rendition. Or maybe I just kill them in the process. Sometimes the lyrics turn out to be silly or tainted, for me. And all the marketing imagery and stuff tends to be an embarrassing association with the songs.

   I still use old complicated art rock stuff as a benchmark for technical progress, though it doesn't do much else for me. It's easy to read since I know the tunes, it's published a lot in guitar magazines, and is better exercise than running scales, I guess.

   I really wish I could get obsessive about something generally, could commit bigger than the odds and ends I like of this and that, but it doesn't seem to happen anymore. Being ecclectic is a cumbersome undertaking.

Subject: RE: Falling out of love ....
From: Mr Red
Date: 03 Jul 03 - 10:33 AM

We are suffering a lot of ads for archive music right now in the UK and it is amazing how they fall fairly easily into the love / hate chutes. All those hip songs that were part of the buzz, but as Theodore Sturgeaon said "9 tenths of everything is crud". An optimist obviously.

Subject: RE: Falling out of love ....
From: kendall
Date: 03 Jul 03 - 01:24 PM

It's called growing up.

Subject: RE: Falling out of love ....
From: GUEST,Tunesmith
Date: 03 Jul 03 - 03:44 PM

I've come to realise that - even at my age - I have a romantic view of music - in the sense that, if I can relate to the artist on more than a musically level, it seems to enhance my enjoyment. For example, Blind Lemon Jefferson singing on a street corner in Wortham, is a lot more of a romantic idea to me than Muddy Waters playing in some sweaty club on Chicago's South Side. Likewise, a young Dylan - with just guitar and harmonica - playing old blues, country tunes and protest songs in a small Greenwich Village club, is an exciting prospect, but Dylan doing the " showbiz" thing with amps, miles of cable and a massive mixing desk does not make the heart beat faster.
I have a great deal of sympathy for those horrified folk musicians at Newport when Dylan went electric. There are various differing reports on the sound, but I'm pretty sure it would have been terrible.

Subject: RE: Falling out of love ....
From: Ritchie
Date: 03 Jul 03 - 04:07 PM

Last year I went to see John Otway perform and he said it was Dylan who had got him started in te music business, figuring that if Dylan could get away with singing like he did then a young Otway could.He then dedicated a song to Dylan and sang it in a 'Dylanish drawl'. It was a few bars in before we realised that it was n't a Dylan 'classic' but a version of 'I Will Survive'. I wonder if Gloria Gaynor sings any Dylan. The joy of being able to play a musical instrument well, must be, to be able to play whatever you want, oh how I'm envious of you all. Listen, keep banging out any old tat you want as long as you keep doing it. I dread the thought of Dylan never have going electric, gosh I might have had to grow up to be a teddy boy or worse still wearing jumpers like the Spiners did. Live for the day, but respect the past. The King is dead, long live the King.

regards Ritchie

Subject: RE: Falling out of love ....
From: rangeroger
Date: 03 Jul 03 - 07:57 PM

Steve Parks, so, are you younger now? If so,how?

rr

Subject: RE: Falling out of love ....
From: JennyO
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 02:52 AM

"...but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now."

Subject: RE: Falling out of love ....
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 04 Jul 03 - 03:01 AM

You hit the nail on the head, JennyO! "Run the film backwards ..."

Steve Parkes